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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-30-08 02:23 PM
Response to Reply #17
18. I still say it's only bigotry.
And I don't give bigots a break.
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  -I think the word "homophobia" legitimizes narrow minded bigotry in a way. Tyler Durden  Apr-30-08 01:13 PM   #0 
  - they're not too paralyzed when they bash someone's head in with a ball bat. nt  xchrom   Apr-30-08 01:16 PM   #1 
  - Then we should be GLAD they are not mentally ill.  Tyler Durden   Apr-30-08 01:22 PM   #4 
     - i might excuse that mental illness notion in the fifties -- might.  xchrom   Apr-30-08 01:40 PM   #13 
  - I agree with you to some extent, but...  SteppingRazor   Apr-30-08 01:20 PM   #2 
  - Oh it's not a big deal, really. I just like making fun of Bigots.  Tyler Durden   Apr-30-08 01:23 PM   #5 
     - Yeah. And they smell bad too, but don't you judge me! I suffer from Bigotophobia!  SteppingRazor   Apr-30-08 01:25 PM   #6 
  - I think that they're relying on the normalized, pop-psychology definition of a phobia  Orrex   Apr-30-08 01:21 PM   #3 
  - murophobia: fear of mice and rats.  Tyler Durden   Apr-30-08 01:28 PM   #7 
     - Well, that just tells us that they're in on the joke  Orrex   Apr-30-08 01:36 PM   #10 
  - Thanks for pointing this out; I will not use the term anymore.  patrice   Apr-30-08 01:28 PM   #8 
  - One of the reasons I always loved GLBT as terminology.  Tyler Durden   Apr-30-08 01:32 PM   #9 
     - Yes, indeed, on the principle that "Different is not Deficient" those genetic  patrice   Apr-30-08 01:37 PM   #11 
        - As it says in the Q'ran, Ar-Rum 30:22  Tyler Durden   Apr-30-08 01:49 PM   #15 
           - Homosexuality as a possible adaptation in response to all of the STRESS  patrice   Apr-30-08 01:55 PM   #16 
  - SHIT! this thread is on GOOGLE already!!!  Tyler Durden   Apr-30-08 01:37 PM   #12 
  - Let me describe "White Knuckle Syndrome"  Dinkeldog   Apr-30-08 01:47 PM   #14 
  - Phobias  Behind the Aegis   Apr-30-08 02:06 PM   #17 
  - I still say it's only bigotry.  Tyler Durden   Apr-30-08 02:23 PM   #18 
     - You can say what you want.  Behind the Aegis   Apr-30-08 02:32 PM   #19 
        - Oh I really don't mind too much.  Tyler Durden   Apr-30-08 02:37 PM   #20 
           - That's a legitimate concern.  Behind the Aegis   Apr-30-08 02:42 PM   #21 
  - I use the term "homomisia" sometimes  galledgoblin   Apr-30-08 05:33 PM   #22 
     - What an apropriate word.  Tyler Durden   Apr-30-08 09:08 PM   #23 
 

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